Welcome to the News Digest – RDM in Natural Science. Each week, I explore the latest developments in research data management, focusing specifically on natural sciences, and provide a concise overview. Let us dive right in.
FAIRmat
From the lab to AI-ready data
The following presentation by Hampus Näsström is for all people interested in AI and materials sciences. In the presentation it is shown how FAIRmat helps to produce lab data that is AI-ready with the help of NOMAD, NOMAD Oasis, NOMAD Plugins, and many others of the NOMAD tools as well as the data standard NeXus and much more.
Link to the presentation in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20824944
MaRDI
More than just RDMO for mathematics: MaRDMO
The second MaRDI newsletter of 2026 is out, and this time is focussing on MaRDMO, an extension of the well-known Research Data Management Organiser (RDMO). And before you ask, it is more than a specific catalogue for the MaRDI community, it is connected to the whole RDM workflow like the MaRDI Portal. Check out the interview with Marco Reidelbach below as well as the whole newsletter where you can find more examples and stories of how MaRDMO can support researchers in the mathematical community.
Link to the newsletter on the MaRDI webpage
NFDI4Chem
A coalition for sustainable chemistry data standards
The Pistois Alliance, CODATA, IUPAC and NFDI4Chem are in the founding stage of the Sustainable Chemistry Data Standards Coalition (SCDSC). Read more about the goals of the initiative, the role of NFDI4Chem as well as the next steps in an article published by Theo Bender.
Link to the article on the NFDI4Chem webpage
Physical Sciences in NFDI
Standards, workflows and knowledge graphs
Physical Sciences in NFDI is a collaboration between PUNCH4NFDI, MaRDI, NFDI-MatWerk. NFDI4Chem, FAIRmat, NFDI4Cat and DAPHNE. Together, they organise online workshops where people from the different consortia provide inside in their work. Now the 5th workshop took place with inputs from Lukas Pielsticker (FAIRmat) on standardization with the NeXus file format, Hubert Simma (PUNCH4NFDI) on FAIR data management for theoretical physicist with Lattice QCD and Alexander Sommer-Behr (NFDI4Cat) on to tackle the problem of the need for systemized and structured literature reviews and how to solve this with knowledge graphs. Check out the recording on YouTube for timestamps and links to the slides of the presentations.
Link to the recording on YouTube
PUNCH4NFDI & NFDI4Cat
Supporting with data workflows: reana
A throw back to 2024 where Harry Enke and Elena Sacchi gave a presentation on data flows with the Reproducible Research Data Analysis Platform reana. If you have missed out on reana until now, take the chance and have a look at the slides, and the example of a dimensionality reduction workflow.
Link to the presentation in Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20923715
The FAIR Elephant
Buidling a community
I am very excited to see that people are already joining the Ask The Elephant community, which I teased last week. The monthly open discussion is a place for all your questions. Read more about it and my webpage and join the community right now. Next week I will provide more information about the topic of the short input of the first pilot session on July 16 at 8 am (CET).
Link to Ask The Elephant on the webpage of The FAIR Elephant
Or click here to join the community directly
Outro
That's it for today. Thanks for reading, and see you next week.
Benjamin
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